The annual election of two Sheriffs for the City of
London took place three months ago back in June at Guildhall, Alderman Sir
Paul Judge (Ward of Tower) and Robert Adrian Waddingham CBE being elected into
office for 2013/2014.
The new Sheriffs are formally admitted at Michaelmas and on
Friday 27 September I lined up with the Master Actuary in the front row at
Guildhall to see our respective Sheriffs take on their new duties. The Marketors is the Mother
Company of Sir Paul (a Past Master) and the Actuaries is the Mother Company of Adrian
Waddingham.
Earlier I had been delighted to meet Sir Paul at
Clothworkers Hall to view his Shrieval Chain. It is most skilfully created, and
financed by many supporting donations across the Livery Companies and many from
individuals. The Sheriffs are now installed
into the positions they will hold for a year and ready to preside at the
Election of a new Lord Mayor on Monday 30 September.
The office of Sheriff, a pre-requisite to becoming
Lord Mayor, is one of the oldest in existence and dates back to the Middle
Ages. Their duties today include attending and assisting the Lord Mayor
in carrying out his official duties, attending the sessions at the Central
Criminal Court in the Old Bailey and presenting petitions from the City to
Parliament at the Bar at the House of Commons. The Master’s blog records
my visit to the Old Bailey and lunch with the Judges earlier this year, hosted there
by former Sheriff Nigel Pullman.
Alderman Sir Paul Judge was born in South London, studied in Catford, and has worked in the food industry and the not for profit sector, as well as taking public service jobs such as Director General of the Conservative Party and Ministerial Advisor at the Cabinet Office. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1996, became a freeman of the City of London in 1970 and chaired the Lord Mayor’s Appeal during Sir John Stuttard’s Mayoralty, and elected Alderman in 2007. He holds honorary doctorates from Cambridge, City and Westminster Universities and is married with two sons.
Buckinghamshire resident Adrian Waddingham CBE qualified as an actuary in 1975, founding Barnett Waddingham LLP in Cheapside in 1989. He is a member of the Occupational Pensions Joint Working Group and was appointed CBE in 2012 for services to the pensions and actuarial professions. He is a member of a number of City clubs and a trustee of a variety of charities including the Skeletal Cancer Action Trust, Sustrans and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He is married with three children.
Alderman Sir Paul Judge was born in South London, studied in Catford, and has worked in the food industry and the not for profit sector, as well as taking public service jobs such as Director General of the Conservative Party and Ministerial Advisor at the Cabinet Office. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1996, became a freeman of the City of London in 1970 and chaired the Lord Mayor’s Appeal during Sir John Stuttard’s Mayoralty, and elected Alderman in 2007. He holds honorary doctorates from Cambridge, City and Westminster Universities and is married with two sons.
Buckinghamshire resident Adrian Waddingham CBE qualified as an actuary in 1975, founding Barnett Waddingham LLP in Cheapside in 1989. He is a member of the Occupational Pensions Joint Working Group and was appointed CBE in 2012 for services to the pensions and actuarial professions. He is a member of a number of City clubs and a trustee of a variety of charities including the Skeletal Cancer Action Trust, Sustrans and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He is married with three children.
Afterwards a big lunch followed at Plaisterers’
Hall, also the home of our Marketors’ office.
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